Kinect + Windows Phone + Windows 8 development via C# and HTML5.
What else can you ask for?
Participate in one or more workshops to prepare yourselves for an IAP competition that challenges you to combine your technical skills and creativity to create the next best product or app, potentially leading to a startup, or some great PR.
Tuesday, January 17: Kinect Development (9a-5p), 4-261 & 4-265
In this session, you will learn how to develop and create applications using the official Kinect SDK. You will walk through features such as: Skeletal Viewer, Audio Capture, Speech. You will have some lab time to start building your own applications for the competition and get help as needed.
In this session, you will learn how to develop and create applications using the official Kinect SDK. You will walk through features such as:
- Skeletal Viewer
- Audio Capture
- Speech
Session Instructors:
- Clint Rutkas (Channel 9)
- Brian Peek (Coding4Fun)
- Donald Brinkman (Microsoft Research)
You will have some lab time to start building your own applications for the competition and get help as needed.
Wednesday, January 18: Windows Phone Development (9a-5p), 4-159
You will learn how to get started on that next great app for the Phone using Silverlight and XNA. This is your chance to design and implement that cool new app you’ve been dreaming about, or put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, so bring your idea for a Phone App and get ready to code. Physical phone devices will be provided for testing purposes.
You will learn how to get started on that next great app for the Phone using Silverlight and XNA. This is your chance to design and implement that cool new app you’ve been dreaming about, or put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, so bring your idea for a Phone App and get ready to code
Session will include:
- Introduction to Windows Phone 7.5 for Developers
- Building Windows Phone 7.5 Apps with Visual Studio
- Building Windows Phone 7.5 Apps with Silverlight and XNA
- Getting Started with Sample Code and other resource
- Your App in the Marketplace
Session Instructors:
- Edwin Guarin (Sr. Academic Developer Evangelist)
- Nora Micheva (Windows Phone Program Manager, MIT ’11)
- Shawn Henry (Windows Phone Program Manager)
Thursday, January 19: Windows 8 Development (9a-5p), 4-159
In this session you will be able to install and learn how to write applications (HTML5 and C#) for the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Session Instructors:
- Chris Bowen (Principal Developer Evangelist)
- George Matthews (SDET)
Tuesday, January 31: Demos, Judging, Prizes awarded
Incentives
- Cash prizes totaling at least $6,000
- Swag:
- T-Shirts
- Xbox 360 Games
- Kinect device
- Windows Phone devices
- Food
- Lunch served each day (registration required for headcount)
The starting point for more!
These workshops can also be used as a stepping stone towards a few larger competitions with a focus on socially responsible themes, including:
- MIT iCampus Student Prize: The iCampus Student Prize recognizes the innovative and creative application of technology that improves living and learning at MIT. The competition builds upon the entrepreneurism and spirit of service exhibited by MIT students to solve the world’s problems by focusing attention of what might be improved closer to home in MIT’s education and student life. See icampusprize.mit.edu for more information.
- MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: IDEAS Global Challenge is an annual invention and entrepreneurship competition for innovative service projects that positively impact underserved communities. Through IDEAS teams of MIT students and their collaborators work with a community partner to design and implement innovative projects that improve the quality of life in communities around the world. See web.mit.edu/mitpsc/whatwedo/ideas-competition for more information.
- Microsoft Imagine Cup: Grants totaling $3 Million over the next 3 years creating focused on building technology to address the world’s toughest issues. See www.imaginecup.com for more information.